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Originally Posted by roachboy
accepting the american-backed situation is suicide for the opposition. there's no choice but to keep ratcheting up the pressure until mubarak and his duplicates resign.
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Assume they get him to resign today, then what? Do they live with his hand pick successor? What changes? It will take time to have open and fair elections, what is wrong with having an orderly transition when that is a clear and obvious option?
Even that as a given, the structural problems are still there. In Egypt the average household spends about 50% of their income on food.
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The 25 Countries That Will Be Screwed By A World Food Crisis ) The country has had declining oil production with an increasing reliance on net imports. The threat of increased food inflation over the next few years is high and poverty rates in the country will continue to get worse before improvement. An orderly transition, from an outsider's view, seems important for living conditions. During this revolution exports from Egypt have materially declined which means less national income and will make living conditions worse.